The men claimed self-defense, but federal prosecutors argued that they had shown “a grave indifference” to the carnage their actions would cause. All four were ordered immediately to jail. Their ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Interior Ministry in Iraq says it's pulling the license of a North Carolina security firm allegedly involved in the fatal shooting of civilians during an attack on a U.S. State ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials expect to announce criminal charges soon against Blackwater security guards over a shooting in Iraq last year that killed 17 civilians and strained U.S.-Iraqi ...

(Reuters) - Three former private security guards for the former security firm Blackwater were given new sentences on Thursday by a federal court for convictions in the 2007 massacre of 14 unarmed ...

The episode in which Blackwater contractors escorting a U.S. diplomat in Iraq ended up killing between 8 and 11 Iraqis triggered an angry denunciation by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and ...

For those who remember the Iraq war, Iran seems like deja vu all over again. After enduring the “shock and awe” bombing of ...